To ensure transparency and fairness in the selection of grantees, REACH India has set up a Grant Selection Committee. The Committee consists of concerned Indian educationists capable of objectively assessing the relative merits of proposals and how well it connects with REACH India objectives. The Committee is a temporary body and it will be disbanded once the project implementation has begun in all six geographical target regions.
REACH India developed evaluation criteria for use by the Grant Selection Committee in judging and awarding grants. The criteria address the following:
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The organization's past experience in the education sector and/or its ability to use past experience to engage in the education sector. |
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The relevance of the activities proposed and their link to REACH India's goals and objectives. |
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Sustainability of the proposed project and the quality of the financial proposal. |
| REACH India is ideally looking at a combination of
grants that would help achieve all three Intermediate Results namely: |
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Out-of-school children provided with alternative schooling and mainstreamed into Formal Elementary Schools. |
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Strengthened Formal and Alternative School Capacity for enrolment and retention of vulnerable children, especially girls. |
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Promoting system reforms for improved decentralized educational services, such as EMIS, micro planning and monitoring. |
